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- From: mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles Mattair)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.230407.17896@sun44.synercom.hounix.org>
- Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, TX
- References: <1992Dec10.025308.14768@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec10.094119.24516@netcom.com> <j50qd7f@dixie.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:04:07 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <j50qd7f@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >
- >>Or does Jyrki want such behavior to go on in secret?
- >
- >Assuming a silent "i", at least his name sounds appropriate - Jerk.
- >
- >John
- >--
- >John De Armond, WD4OQC |Interested in high performance mobility?
- >Performance Engineering Magazine(TM) | Interested in high tech and computers?
- >Marietta, Ga | Send ur snail-mail address to
- >jgd@dixie.com | perform@dixie.com for a free sample mag
- >Need Usenet public Access in Atlanta? Write Me for info on Dixie.com.
-
- God protect us. A furriner casting vile aspersions as to the freedoms we
- all know we have. Us - the most open, most free of the societies mostly
- located in the middle of the North American continent.
-
- Assuming John practices what he preaches, 'twill be a cold day in Hell before
- I use the facilities he wastes five lines of .sig to advertise.
-
- I think the real point here is there is no differentiation between authorized
- and unauthorized user's. I would suspect keystroke monitoring of a paid
- account on a nixpub site such as dixie.com appears to be would be a
- violation of the contract. As Mr De Armond points out in a previous post,
-
- > There is no "rights" issue
- > involved here except property rights. That is, the property I own
- > and provide to my employees to use is to be used in accordance with
- > my rules. Period. if my employees don't like the rules, they can
- > work elsewhere or buy their own equipment with THEIR money.
-
- I, grudgingly, agree with this although it evidences a rather feudalistic
- view of his serfs, excuse me, employees. Disgruntled employees can
- do considerable damage to an organization and unfortunately for management,
- faster than you can fire them.
-
- P.S. Would you really really would allow one of your employees to bring
- his/her own iron to work.
- --
- Charles Mattair mattair@synercom.hounix.org
- Any opinions offered are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
- Never try to teach a pig to sing - you waste your time and it annoys the pig.
-